There's a Catholic tradition known as Lent. To those unfamiliar, it is a 40 day and night period of fasting that pays tribute the period when Jesus used his powers to fuck desert creatures and do drugs without anyone looking. So usually it's foisted upon children in the following way:
First, we give you a heap of pancakes. Then we tell you "Okay, Billy. You need to stop doing something now." For most kids this ended up being ice cream or candy corn or cutting down on the TV watching. For...